one wrote those who come after assad may be enemies of assad. it's true. some are extremist. that's only the case if they see the world doing nothing to those gassing people to death. we just want to live in peace with dignity and freedom and the day after any military action we'd redouble our actions to achieve a political solution that strengthen the rejection of tyranny and extremism. finally, many of you asked why not leave this to other countries or seek solutions short of force? several people wrote to me, we should not be the world's policeman. i agree and i have a deeply held preference for peaceful solutions. my administration has try diplomacy and sanctions but chemical weapons were still used by the assad regime. however over the last few days we've seen encouraging signs. in part, because of the threat of us military action and talks i've had the president putin. russia had moved to push him to give up his chemical weapons. they joined the chemical weapons convention and they have admit today having them. this initiative has the potential to remove the threat of c